Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) CXXIV
Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) is Canada’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series
Featured poets: Zahra Dhanani & Keith Garebian
+ Open Mic for poetry in any language
Host: Bänoo Zan
Time: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Place: Living Room, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
This is an in-person event open to the public.
Open Mic Sign-up: 6:30 PM at the venue
Open Mic Duration: 3 minutes
Show: 7-10 PM EST
Admission: $10-20 Sliding Scale
Cash at the door
There is an ATM machine at the venue.
Zahra Dhanani is a fierce, flamboyant, stylish, spiritual, spin-sister on a mission to bring joy and justice to everything she does. She is a writer, activist, healer, performer, recovering lawyer, ex-dj, consultant, public speaker, business owner, glam queen and an anti-oppression evangelist. She has hosted radio shows, worked in tv, organized demonstrations, mediated debates, facilitated healing circles, MC'd the biggest PRIDE stages, lobbied parliamentarians.... She believes: it's not what you do but how you do it! She co-owns and operates The Old's Cool General Store: your local Mom and Mom Shop, making consciousness convenient since 2015 (FB/Insta: Oldscoolgeneralstore).
Keith Garebian of Mississauga has won international acclaim for his theatre books and he has been widely praised for his poetry collections Frida: Paint Me as a Volcano; Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems; Children of Ararat; Poetry is Blood; Against Forgetting; in the bowl of my eye; Finger to Finger; and his chapbooks Scan, Areté, and Family Song Stitching. He has had some poems adapted to music and modern dance, and he has been honoured by an anthology (A Disciplined Passion: Essays on the works of Keith Garebian) and by inclusion in the third volume of Laurence Hutchman’s In the Writers’ Words.
Event Poster: Ghazaleh Zarrinzadeh
This event is partly supported by the League of Canadian Poets.
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